Understood Betsy (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Understood Betsy (version 2), credited to Dorothy Canfield Fisher, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney cousins, whom, as Great-Aunt Harriet said “Such lack of sympathy, such perfect indifference to the sacred sensitiveness of child-life, such a starving of the child-heart … No, I shall never forget it! They had chores to do … as though they had been hired men!” But to the Putney cousins in Vermont Elizabeth Ann has to go. And there, with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Abigail and Cousin Ann, she grows strong and well and happy and, most importantly, learns to think for herself, and truly becomes Understood Betsy. (summary Kymm Zuckert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Understood Betsy (version 2)
• Author credits: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 4:43:47

Catalogue topics

• betsy
• fisher
• children
• fiction
• sudio books

Track guide

1. 01 - Aunt Harriet Has a Cough — 24:22
2. 02 - Betsy Holds the Reins — 23:25
3. 03 - A Short Morning — 20:13
4. 04 - Betsy Goes to School — 13:54
5. 05 - What Grade is Betsy — 18:51
6. 06 - If You Don't Like Conversation in a Book Skip this Chapter — 24:08
7. 07 - Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination — 23:18
8. 08 - Betsy Starts a Sewing Society — 22:34
9. 09 - The New Clothes Fail — 20:38
10. 10 - Betsy Has A Birthday — 42:08
11. 11 - Understood Aunt Frances — 50:22

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